Granta Publications will close its Portobello Books imprint, effective January 2019, with all authors under contract to be published by Granta Books, the Bookseller reported. The publisher added that no change in output or personnel would result from the development, with the list size of Granta Books expanding to incorporate the Portobello titles.
Portobello Books was founded in 2005 by Philip Gwyn Jones, Sigrid Rausing and Eric Abraham. Rausing, who bought Granta in 2006 and merged the two independent publishing houses, along with Granta magazine, in 2011 to become Granta Publications (Jones left Granta in 2013), said: "I am so proud of everything we have achieved, but publishing all our books under the Granta imprint allows us to truly focus on building our reputation as a quality publisher of global literary fiction and non-fiction and will bring the editorial vision of the books and magazine closer together."